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Dromedary Hump Mine

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043741
MRDS ID M231015
Record type Site
Current site name Dromedary Hump Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.16735, 39.25158 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Drumm Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 016N 034E 16,17 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Embolite Ore
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.16735, 39.25158
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Quartz Veins

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Fairview District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • THE DROMEDARY HUMP VEIN LIES IN THE NORTHERN PART OF A DACITE INTRUSIVE, ABOUT 7,000 FEET NORTH OF THE NEVADA HILLS MINE. IN PLACES IT IS ABOUT 50 FEET WIDE, AND IT CONSISTS CHIEFLY OF MASSIVE QUARTZ AND SILICIFIED ROCK. IT IS IN PART BRECCIATED AND IN PLACES CRUDELY BANDED AND VUGGY. ORE DEPOSITS OCCUR IN DISCONTINOUS POCKETS AND STREAKS, MOSTLY SMALL. THE DEPOSITS ARE SILVER DEPOSITS, BELIEVED TO BE FORMED BY HOT MINERAL-BEARING MAGNATIC SOLUTIONS. THE SURFICIAL ORE WAS QUITE RICH BUT DIFFICUT TO TREAT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F C, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA, NEVADA, 1947, NBMG FILES

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, RONALD, AND SPEED, R C, 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL 83

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1980 Flynn, Patricia Dodd Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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